Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...
Dead Fleas. Most Australian scientists are convinced that myxomatosis is still the best weapon against rabbits. Geneticist William Sobey, for one, is attempting to breed a more potent type of virus by combining existing strains. He has already produced some "interesting results" but needs lengthy field tests...
Suspecting that Australian mosquitoes now carry a relatively harmless strain of myxomatosis virus that imparts immunity to more deadly strains in the rabbits it infects, the geneticist has been seeking-another virus carrier. But his search has been plagued by misfortune. Impressed by the European flea, which has successfully spread myxomatosis over the Continent, he had some 12,000 fleas shipped to Australia. Only nine of the little pests withstood the trip...
Against the day when 6-105 and other thriving strains fall victim to new mutants of rust, Wahl is already working with Israeli Geneticist Daniel Zohary to breed fungi-resistant grain strains that will, like plasma in a blood bank, be immediately available for sowing in areas hard-hit by rust epidemics. They have already found new wheat and barley strains that are apparently resistant to rust. Says Wahl: "We must build up a bank rich in strains so that we are never again caught by a scavenger like...
...Geneticist Bentley Glass incited the fuss last winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts...